704 HENRY SOTHEKAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., and 43, PICCADILLY, W. 



140.37 BENNIE (George, c.E., f.r.s.) Notes on Natural Philosophy, taken from Mr. [.John] 

 Playfair's Class, durinfj the Winter Session at Edinburgh, 1807-8, a neatly written Manu- 

 script on 120 pages, with numerous illustrations in ink and sepia, sin. 8vo. hf. hound, £2. 2* [1808] 



An interesting volume wi-itten at tlie age of seventeen when George Reniiie was a stu<lentat Edinburgh University. 



14038 Private Cash Books from 1829 to 1849 : { Wintershall Account), from 



Aug, 1831 to March 1835: Bankers CHE<iUE Book, from Jan. 1848 to Jan. 1851, Manuscripts 

 — 5 vols. 8vo. and cr. 4to. in various bindings, £1. Is 1829-5f 



14039 Private Note Book, from Jan. 1st, 1815 to Dec. 81st, 1816, a Manuscript, post 8vo. 



leather, \2s 1815-16 



Interesting as giving an insight into the mind of the great engineer at the age of --'4 and -J.j. An ontry under July (3, 

 I'^I J, mentions the Battle of AVaterloo and the Occupation of Paris by the Allies. ' 



14040 Sketch and Memorandum Book on Engineering Matters, a Manuscript in h.is 



handwriting, and full of original sketches and drawings, oblong 12mo. leather {joints 

 cracked), £\. 5s 1825-41 



14041 Specification of a Dock witli a Sea Entrance, Stop Gates, etc., proposed to be 



constructed for the Llangennech Coal Co. at Llanelly, a Manuscript on 14 pp. of paper 

 {P. 11 signed: George Rennic, and dated: Stamford Street, 27 March 1829), folio, sewn, £1. os 1829 



14042 '■ Work mainly in Connexion with Naval Engineering, executed by Messrs. J. & G. 



Kennie and (after\\ard8) G. Renxie i^ Sons, a very interesting Manuscript Collection of 

 Copies of Original Documents and Correspondence, with numerous Drawings, Sketches, 

 Newspaper Cuttings, etc., relating to the Firm's Dealings all over the World, thick itolio, russia, 

 £3. .3.S ■ 1818-59 



14043 BENNIE (James, King's Coll., London) Alphabet of Scientific Chemistry for the Use of 

 Beginners; new Edition, much improved, ivith vignette of John Dalton, F.B.S., and numerous 

 other n-oodcuts, 12mo. cl., 2* M 1834 



Unknown to the author's biographer in T). N. B. 



14044 BENNIE (John, c.E., f.r.s. ; engineer of Waterloo and London Bridges and of the Plymouth 

 Breakwater ; father of George and Sir John Rennie): Aberdeenshire Canal and Harbour, 

 liEPORTS and Specifications concerning the, by John Smeaton. f.r.s. and John Rennie : 

 neatly written MS. on 118 pp., with a few MS. additions and an Estimate in the hand- 

 writing of John Rennie, folio, hf bound, £1. \s 1770-1802 



14045 [- — ]: Interesting Particulars relative to that (Jreat National Undertaking, the Break- 

 water, now constructing in Plymouth Sound, with coloured front, and^mxips, 8vo. (pp. 34), 

 seirn (scarce), Ss %d Devon: Plymouth Dock [Deconport], and Stonehou^e [1820] 



Including the Report of John Rennie and Jo.seph Whibley. 



Plymouth Jircakwater was the greatest engineering Avork undertaken by John Rennie. ' It consisted of a wall a 

 mile in length acros.s the Sound, in deep water, and containing 3,670,444 tons of rough stone, besides 22,140 cubic yards of 

 masonry on the surface' (D. N. B.). It was begun in l.sil and finished in 1S4S by his .son. Sir John Rennie, and has 

 outlived every storm from then till now. 



1404H , New Shoreham Harbour : the Report of, 8vo. (pp. 22), sewn, 4s 1810 



The present Shoreham Harbour, the port of Brighton. 



14047 Lecture Notes, and Copies of Memoirs : very neatly written Manuscript on 



228 pp., with full -page illustrations, 4to. hf bound, £4. 4* 1782 



This very interesting manuscript, according to MS. note in the work, 'was written by John Rennie when a student at 

 Edinburgh, 178-'.' The memoirs include : Theorems for Computing Logarithms, by J. Hellins : De.scription and Use of a 

 Portable Wind Gage, by James Lind: Researches on the Equilibrium of Arches, by the Abbe Bossut: Experimental 

 Examination of the Quantity and Proportion of Mechanic Power in giviiig ditterent Degrees of Velocity to Heavy Botlies, 

 by John Smeaton: New Fundamental Experiments on the Collision of Bodies, by the same: On the Centering ami 

 Decenteriiig of Biidges, by M. Perronet. 



140*8 Report to the Subscribers to a Canal from Arundel to Portsmouth, etc. etc., v-ith 



folding plate, and 16 pp. of neatly written MS., and sketch, both by the author, added, 

 4to. (pp. 15), sevn, £1. 10* Portsmouth, 1816 



This includes the Chichester Canal, now dried uj). but memorable for ever as providing one of the most beautiful 

 paintings of Turner. The MS. consists of a copy of ' The Causes of the Opposition of the Committee of Navigation of the 

 City of London to the Erection of Pound Locks and AVeirs ', by Frederick Page (171».''), evidently written by Jolin Rennie, 

 with some critical remarks on margin by him. 



14049 Report, Plan, and Estimate of an entire New Harbour (the Piers of Stone) proposed to 



be constructed at the Port of Bridlington, Yorks.,t«i7A/o;c?«X(5f/?/rtn, 4to. (pp.8),*eM;w,4* Leeds, 1816 



140.30 , Report by, on a Survey and Plan of a Canal from the River Clyde at Glasgow, to 



the West Coast of the County of Air, at, or near the Harbour of Saltcoats, by John Ainslie 

 [with Additional Report], 4to. (pp. 10), sewn (plan wanting), 5s Air, 1804 



14051 Report on the intended Canal from Croydon to Rotherhithe ; with folding map of 



Whitelmven Harbour, Cumberland, and 3 pp. of Manuscript, with Sketch, by Sir John 

 Rennie, added, folio (pp. 8), sewn, 12s [1800] 



14052 Report concerning the ditterent Lines surveyed by Messrs. John Ainslie and Robert 



Whitworth, Jun. for a Canal proposed to be made between Edinburgh and Glasgow, and 

 intended to communicate with the Frith of Forth at Leith, and the River Clyde at the Broomie 

 Law ; with an Account of a Running Level, taken for a New Line by Linlithgow and Falkirk, 

 with very large folding map, 4to. (pp. 12), sewn, with numerous MS. notes by George 

 Bennie, 10^6^ 1797 



14(153 Report of a Survey of the River Thames, between Reading and Isleworth, and 



of several Lines of Canals projected to be made between those Places, with Observations on their 

 comparative Eligibility, Svo. (pp. 55), sewn {plan wanting), 5s 1794 



14054 Report and Estimate of the Grand Southern Canal, proposed to be made between 



TUNBRIDGE and Portsmouth, by Means of which and the River Med way, an Inland Navigation 

 will be Oldened between the River Thames and Portsmouth, ^^m. folio (pp. 12), unbound, 5s 1810 



